, 1887-10-09

SOME or BEECHER's SAYINGS.

An appreciatiye friend of the late
Henry Ward Beecher has collected some
of his best sayings from written and
spoken discourses. They are full of mar
row for thoughtful reading. We append
a few of them:
Rejoice in the Lord always | will
defy anyone to do it, if he were snch a
God as was taught me when | was a boy.
The mar that has lived for himself has
the privilege OF being his own mourner.
The opinion of Solomon is not shared
by men very generally. Concelt is very
much III repute. People who are con
ceited, by no means think that they are
fools-they think that Solomon was one.
We have in our midst that exceedingly
high mountain to which Satan took
Christ and showed MIN the smiling world
beneath. 1t is the daily newspaper.
Do you suppose | study musty old
books when | want to preach. No; |
study you. When | want to know more
about the doctrine Of depravitY | study
you, and | have abundant illustrations or
every side.
An Episcopalian2 Yes, | am. 1 am a
Presbyterian. too; and | am a Methodist,
and a Baptist and II SwedenborRian. l
am everything tina; has any good in 1t.
The Bible is like a telescope, If a man
looks through his telescope, then he sees
worlds beyond; but if he looks at his tel
escope, then he does not see anything but
hat.
l rejoice in the provision that is made
for mure leisure, more vacation, more
laughter aud less crying. These rub out
the wrinkles. They widen the brain.
They make the heart pulsate with better
blood. Relaxation is a good thing.
The old Greeks said that a man had
two ears and one mouth, that he might
hear twice and speak once, and there is a
great deal OF good sense in 1t. You will
find that if you will simply hold your
peace you will pass over nine out of ten
of the provocatlUns OF life.
A womau's nature will never be
changed. Men might spin and churn,
and knit and sew and cook, and rock the
cradle, for a hundred generations and not
be women. And woman will not become
man by external occupation. Gods colors
do not wash out. Sex Is dyed in the wool.
Never gauge the duration OF your sleep
by the time any one else sleeps. Some
men will tell you that John Wesley had
only 50 much sleep; Hunter, the great
Psychologist, so much, and Napoleon SO
much. But when the Lord made you as
a general thing he did not make Napo-
Icons. Every man carries within himself
a Mount Sinai, a revealed law, written for
himself separately.
Many OF you object to our war because
it is war. Now, | must say hat for an
Englishman TO be opposed on principle to
wal is a greater mark of sincerity and
frankness than any thing I know of. You
have two wars on hand now and | hardly
know the time when you have not had
one.
Some Justify the obscurity Of their style,
saying that it is a good thing for men TO
be Obliged to dig for the ideas which they
get. But | submit to you that working
on Sunday is not proper for ordinary
people in church, and obliging your par
ishioners to dig and delve for ideas in
your sermons is making them do the very
work you are paid a salary to do for them.
Look at Herbert Spepcer's God-it is
nothing. 1t Is exactly what the annual
joke of our Professor Smell, in Amherst
college, was when he said: ''Gentlemen,
you will perceive this invisible ball u |
do not revile Herbert Spencer; many of
the stones that will shine out by and by
in the completed temple of God will have
come from his hands, but | think his
writings should be taken as the disciples
took the wheat, which they ate, rubbing
it in their hands.